How many watts can a normal household circuit handle?

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How many watts can a normal household circuit handle?

02-21-2003, 03:48 PM

StirCrazy

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a normal house hold circut is 15 amps which equates to aprox 1800 watts, now this is not to say you can run 1800 watts all the time, but a safe range would be 1500 watts and less.

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